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Professors Lawrence Venuti and Karen Van Dyck on campus in October

The Connecting Cultures Global Research Priority is pleased to be welcoming two distinguished academic visitors to Warwick campus between October 24 and 27: Professor Karen Van Dyck, Kimon A. Doukas Professor of Modern Greek Language and Literature at Columbia University, and Professor Lawrence Venuti, Professor of English at Temple University. Staff, students and the general public are warmly invited to join us for the public events listed below. Please contact Chantal Wright at C.M.Wright@warwick.ac.uk with any queries.

An interactive map of Warwick campus can be found at the following link: https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/maps/interactive/

“Migration, Translingualism, Translation”, a lecture by Professor Karen Van Dyck

Tuesday 24 October, 5 to 6.30 p.m. Room: A0.28 Millburn House (in Film and TV Studies, located on the Kirby Corner Road side of the Millburn House complex), followed by drinks.

“Translating Proverbs: The Instrumentalism of Conventional Wisdom”, a lecture by Professor Lawrence Venuti

Wednesday 25 October, 5 to 6.30 p.m. Room: A0.28 Millburn House (in Film and TV Studies, located on the Kirby Corner Road side of the Millburn House complex), followed by drinks.

Translation Matters: The Current State of Translation Studies. A professorial roundtable with Professor Lawrence Venuti (Temple), Emeritus Professor Jean Boase-Beier (UEA), Professor Michelle Bolduc (Exeter) and Professor Loredana Polezzi (Cardiff).

Friday 27 October, 2.15 to 4 p.m. Room: R0.03 Ramphal Building, Library Road, central campus.

For more information, visit our Translation at Warwick webpage.


Harvard Institute for World Literature

Congratulations to our PGS, Visnja Krstic and Di Wu, who have been awarded full funding on Harvard's prestigious, and very competitive, Institute for World Literature.

Thu 12 May 2016, 19:33 | Tags: Conference, Postgraduate, Funding

IAS Visiting Fellow Pamela Gilbert in residence from 9-20 May 2016

Professor Pamela Gilbert will be in residence at Warwick from 9-20 May 2016. We will be hosting the events below during her visit.

11 MAY, 2.30-4.30, H539: DROP-IN CAREER DEVELOPMENT SESSION

For all PhD students, postdoctoral associates and early career colleagues.

Pamela will answer your questions about the development of your early career, including applying for the US and Canadian job market, professionalization (an increasingly important factor in making credible applications to both UK and North American universities), building an early career network, publication and presentation.

As well as being one of the world's most eminent Victorianists and feminist thinkers and researchers in the field of medical humanities, 2009-12 Pamela was Head of the Department of English at UoF; she holds or has held executive positions with MLA and NAVSA, and editorial positions on several refereed journals, US and UK. She founded the professionalisation workshop of BAVS in 2013 and continues to lead this and professionalisation initiatives for other academic associations and projects; she is frequently sought as external member for hiring panels across the US system.


16 MAY, 1-4: INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOP WITH THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED TEACHING AND LEARNING, G.5, MILLBURN HOUSE

1-2: LUNCH (FREE AND OPEN TO ALL)

2-4: DISCUSSION

"Be Afraid! Be Very Afraid!"

[A workshop co-sponsored by IATL, the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, the Centre for the History of Medicine, and the Institute of Advanced Study]

Why do we read tragedy, melodrama, and horror fiction, which evoke fear and sadness?

How do we enjoy them?

These are the research questions guiding this interdisciplinary workshop, featuring Professor Pamela Gilbert of the University of Florida in conversation with respondents from different fields at Warwick. Respondents will include Jonny Heron (IATL), Lorenzo More (Life Sciences), Liz Barry (English), Emilie Taylor-Brown (English/IAS). We invite all postgraduate students, early career fellows, and others to join us for lunch, followed by a lively discussion on the relationship between physiology, psychology, neuroscience, art, and literature.

This event is free, and there is no need to register in advance.

Abstract:

The late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw the explosion of both literacy and the production of the novel. This period also saw the rise of physiological psychology, in which thinkers interested in affect often turned to literature as a rich field for the contemplation of human emotion; likewise, literary authors had a natural interest in what scientists and philosophers had to say about the experience of art. Recent advances in neuroscience today have given new insight into—and images of—the workings of affect, and a corresponding interest in neuroscientific theories of reading. But, the earlier period had its own scientific theories of reading and reception, not so different from today’s.

One problem that has dogged aesthetic and psychological theorists since at least the days of Aristotle is the aesthetic appreciation of negative affects:
• Why do we read tragedy, melodrama, and horror fiction, which evoke fear and sadness?
• How do we enjoy them?

This workshop will outline some of the theories of the period and how they were reflected in the literature of the time. We will then consider some current theories and research on these questions. I hope that we can then open to a wider discussion of how more recent developments in the arts, media, and the sciences affect our understanding of the appeal of aversive affects and how that appeal reflects on our sense of what is "natural" in "human nature."


18 MAY, 12-2, H.545 (HUMANITIES BUILDING):

RESEARCH SEMINAR WITH PROFESSOR GILBERT ON "FLAYING HISTORY: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, HISTORICAL PROGRESS, AND MARSYAS."

12-1: BUFFET LUNCH (H.502)
1-2: SEMINAR (H.545.)

This talk is drawn from Professor Gilbert's current book project on skin in the nineteenth century. There is no need to pre-register, and attendance is free.

19 MAY, 12-1: 'GLOBAL FUTURES: BUILDING INTERDISCIPLINARY POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH CAREERS' IAS SYMPOSIUM, SCARMAN HOUSE

Professor Gilbert will participate in the following session at this IAS symposium:

Session 2 - Building Research Careers

Live testimony from successful young academics and International Visiting Fellows about their experiences building an interdisciplinary research career.

Confirmed Chair: Professor Simon Swain
Confirmed Speakers: Dr James Sprittles, Professor Pamela Gilbert (University of Florida, USA), Professor Sandra Vasconcelos (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)

More information at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/ias/activities/symposium/2016

19-20 MAY: WORLD VICTORIANS CONFERENCE
HUMANITIES STUDIO
, 1ST FLOOR OF HUMANITIES BUILDING

Professor Gilbert will be delivering a keynote lecture at the 'World Victorians" conference on "The Magnifying Glass and the Telescope: Incommensurability and Complementarity in Nineteenth-century Studies" (19 May, 16.15-17.30).

More information at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/research/researchgroups/worldvictorians/
Programme at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/research/researchgroups/worldvictorians/events/program/

Biography: Pamela K. Gilbert is Albert Brick Professor of English at the University of Florida. She is a former chair of the English Department there and a recent recipient of a prestigious Guggenheim fellowship. She received her PhD in English from the University of Southern California in 1994. Her current monograph project is on skin in the nineteenth century.

Professor Gilbert's research interests include gender, the Victorian novel, the body, Victorian cultural and medical history, and medical humanities. Her many distinguished publications include Cholera and Nation (SUNY Press, 2008), The Citizen’s Body (Ohio State University Press, 2007), and Disease, Desire and the Body in Victorian Women’s Popular Novels (Cambridge University Press, 1997). She is the editor of the Companion to Sensation Fiction (Blackwell, 2011), and she currently edits the book series Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century (SUNY Press); she is also co-associate editor of the recent Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature.

Professor Gilbert's visit and the above events are sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Study, the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, French Studies/the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, and the Centre for the History of Medicine.

For more information, contact Ross Forman, R.G.Forman@warwick.ac.uk, or Emma Francis, E.J.Francis@warwick.ac.uk.

Fri 06 May 2016, 14:26 | Tags: Conference

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